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smart Friday, 06 February 2015 09:06 AM
Thanks Dr. Ranga for your comments. I agree with you that cut-outs/posters of the President and other politicians should not be pasted in buses and other govt vehicles. Its cheap politics as we Sri lanans ( with the country with over 90% literacy), should refrain from such practices. Pasting cut-outs etc in public places (next day those are torn down to half and foul languages written on them by the opposition party supporters), we are educating our children to resort this type of behaviour in schools and universities. It should be made a punishable offence should anyone tries in the future. I would suggest to keep the country clean, placards in party rallies and meetings should be allowed as this causes no harm and also when the media telecast these public gatherings with their comments, this should be sufficient for the politicians to earn votes.
Katie Friday, 06 February 2015 09:36 AM
Dear Dr RangaSuggest you have an interview with the President, because you will know what right questions to ask.
maddy Friday, 06 February 2015 02:58 PM
A balance write up since what we have to read in both Engilsh and Sinhala press these days are praising My3-bashing MR kind of articles. Keep up your good work Dr.
Aba Jayasekera Saturday, 07 February 2015 12:36 AM
I think Kalansooriya having supported MR before the election is now talking nonsense. He is bent on finding fault with President Sirisena. He says “Maithri is not the first President to reach such a high seat from grass root level. In that context, it was President Premadasa who was the first ‘People’s President’ in Sri Lanka. If one could remember, President Premadasa, too, was an extra-ordinarily humble person at his beginning.” In this he is quite wrong. He was publicly anointed to as the heir to the presidency by JR at a Gam Udawa and the UNP is not and was never a People’s Party. Further in his speech to the nation after his appointment he made his speech at the Dalada Maligawa in Kandyan Royalty style from the Paththirippuwa with his wife and family , something which even the Kandyan kings did not do. To say that Premadasa was the first “People’s President” is rubbish. I was waiting to see Mr. Sirisena speaking from the Paththirippuwa. Instead, he spoke from a lower stage erected below. I as a young graduate during the 1956 election. I “lived” that time and saw at close hand how the entire populace rallied round the SLFP. The masses thought that they were the rulers. Then, as well as now, I continue to support the UNP and its liberal policies. However, the UNP can never be a truly People’s Party like the SLFP. This party alone can produce a “People’s President”. What makes a person a “People’s President “ is not merely his humble beginnings but whether with such beginnings the majority of humble people consider him their choice.Mr. Sirisena is the first “People’s President “ in Sri Lanka. Kalansooriya says that at the last presidential election, it was proved that cut-outs and billboards could be counter-productive in electioneering campaigns citing veteran political commentator, M. S. M. Ayub. No such thing has been or can be proved. Cut-outs and billboards may win over only some voters but displaying as they do that a candidate is sure to be elected, they would make people believe that it was futile to vote for the opponent and results in many voters keeping away. Maithri could have got a bigger majority if MR had not used cut-outs and polythene. I am surprised that the writer does not understand what any child would understand, namely, the difference between cut-outs before the election which is a dishonest attempt to distort facts and win votes and cut-outs after the election which is purely celebratory and cause no harm to anyone – other than environmentalists.
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